Device for informing a motor vehicle driver

US6535140B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Stefan Goss · Hildesheim, DE
• Dietmar Kell · Bad Salzdetfurth, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 27, 1997
• Grant date: Mar 18, 2003
• Expiry date: Aug 31, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/091
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A device for informing a motor vehicle driver having a decoder for digitally coded traffic messages and an auto navigator, which is designed to determine the instantaneous position of a vehicle and to calculate route recommendations, forming one basic structural unit. Preferably, a digitally coded road map, and information necessary for decoding and outputting the traffic messages are stored on the same data storage medium.